Web Development - Tutorials and Articles

When designing skyscraper banners (160×600 and 130×160…etc.) try incorporating your logo in to the top and bottom portions of your banner layouts.
If you only want to include one logo, try positioning the logo in the top or middle portions of the banner.
If you only include your brand identity at the bottom, it’s will most likely fall below the fold (below the initial browser window area) and out of view of the user. Having a logo atop of the banner insures the viewer will be able to identity the brand associated with the message and call to actions.

I was searching for a free SEO web tool recently and stumbled across this site. I put this domain name in the search form  and it quickly pointed out a few necessary tweaks that I over looked in putting together my blog. You can never be a 100% sure that your site is SEO certified. This tool crawls your site like the Google bot and displays your meta data. From there, it will make suggestion on things you should fix or tips on how to enhance your site’s SEO performance.

http://www.spidertest.com/index.php

If you have small side jobs as I do from time to time, this is a really nice online invoicing application.
There’s a free account for small businesses (1-3 users).

It also comes with a desktop widget for Mac and Window users.
http://www.paymo.biz/

Here are a few WordPress themes I thought were buzz worthy. I’ve included a link to each demo and template download file.

1) Clip The Photo (Demo | Download )

2) Upstart Blogger (Demo | Download)

3) AI (Demo | Download)

Server Side Includes

SSI, or Server Side Includes: Use to include html files.
<!–#include virtual=”path to file/include-file.html” –>

PHP

PHP is a server side programming language: Use this to inlcude php pages or html pages

Simple:
<?php include(“your_file.html”); ?>
Or
<?php
require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . “your_file.html”);
?>

ASP

Active Server Pages are server side programming languages: Use this to inlcude asp pages or html pages
<!–#include file=”your_file.html”–>

JavaScript

JavaScript is a client side programming language (processed by your browser, no the server): You must take your html code, place it in side of a javascript document.write function to be printed to the screen. Be sure to fix your html quote marks by adding a backslash to the front of each one.  Save the file and include it using below.

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”your_file.js”> </script>